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Title: Volume normalizing software
Post by: Mangled* on March 11, 2008, 11:50:50 pm
Does anybody know of any free software (other than iTunes) that can make the volume of lots of .mp3 files all the same?
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: chutem on March 12, 2008, 03:18:57 am
I had a program that can do that, but it may take a while to remember which one...



Ok got it, here (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/), it can normalize cd's to one volume, and I am pretty sure you can select files on your hard drive aswell.
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: The Bone Collector on March 12, 2008, 04:06:32 am
What the hell is that supposed to do?
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: spkka on March 12, 2008, 06:28:20 am
audacity or sth. There are really a lot of programs that can do this...
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

and bone collector it will normalize all tracks to the same volume
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on March 12, 2008, 08:17:55 am
yeah, audacity should be able to do it.
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: Graham on March 12, 2008, 09:54:04 am
What the hell is that supposed to do?
When music is acquired in a less that legal way the volumes of some songs may be different. As in some songs you may have to turned up the volume on the computer and some songs are louder so you would have to turn the volume down on the computer.
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: Mangled* on March 12, 2008, 11:53:08 am
Not audacity.. I already use audacity frequently and I know that it would take absolutely ages to change the volume of loads of songs... I'm talking about hundreds of .mp3 files.

Date Posted: March 12, 2008, 12:50:56 pm
I had a program that can do that, but it may take a while to remember which one...



Ok got it, here (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/), it can normalize cd's to one volume, and I am pretty sure you can select files on your hard drive aswell.

Woah, I didn't ask for CD ripping software, pal.

I wanted software that can make the volume of lots of .mp3 files within the same range, this is called normalizing.
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: FliesLikeABrick on March 12, 2008, 12:57:04 pm
What the hell is that supposed to do?
When music is acquired in a less that legal way the volumes of some songs may be different. As in some songs you may have to turned up the volume on the computer and some songs are louder so you would have to turn the volume down on the computer.

even legal CD rippers can create files with non-matching volumes
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: Amblin on March 12, 2008, 07:34:04 pm
Mangled, look up ReplayGain.

It doesn't actually change the volume/re-encode the MP3s, it just adds a tag to it, telling players how much louder/quieter to play it.

Meaning: this is what you're looking for as long as your player supports it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain
has a list of scanners to do the scanning/adding of the information and a list of compatible players
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: The Philanthropist on March 12, 2008, 11:59:13 pm
Windows Media Player.
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: Mangled* on March 13, 2008, 12:38:58 am
Mangled, look up ReplayGain.

It doesn't actually change the volume/re-encode the MP3s, it just adds a tag to it, telling players how much louder/quieter to play it.

Meaning: this is what you're looking for as long as your player supports it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain
has a list of scanners to do the scanning/adding of the information and a list of compatible players

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction... For now it'll do, but ideally I want software that can re-encode the mp3's all to the same volume levels.
Title: Re: Volume normalizing software
Post by: chutem on March 14, 2008, 01:43:10 am
Not audacity.. I already use audacity frequently and I know that it would take absolutely ages to change the volume of loads of songs... I'm talking about hundreds of .mp3 files.

Date Posted: March 12, 2008, 12:50:56 pm
I had a program that can do that, but it may take a while to remember which one...



Ok got it, here (http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/), it can normalize cd's to one volume, and I am pretty sure you can select files on your hard drive aswell.

Woah, I didn't ask for CD ripping software, pal.

I wanted software that can make the volume of lots of .mp3 files within the same range, this is called normalizing.
Yeah, you can normalize files when you rip from cd's so I thought maybe you could do it with other files on your computer as well.